Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
I read a fascinating article in the New York Times yesterday about how the electricity grid in New York can’t always cope with the amount of electricity being produced by the Maple Ridge wind farm and so from time to time the wind farm has to shut down production!
This problem is not unique to [...]
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Trilliant, are a Smart Network infrastructure provider who
provides intelligent network solutions and software to utilities for advanced metering, demand response, and smart grid management
Last week they announced that they had
closed a $40 million equity investment from an affiliate of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures
Next Tuesday, Sept 2nd, I will be interviewing [...]
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I love this – a German company comes up with an idea to make ships far more fuel efficient using… sails! Yes, wind-powered ships. Why didn’t anyone think of it before? Oh, hang on…
Seriously, watching the video above, Skysails, the company re-inventing the technology, seems to be onto a really good thing. Fuel [...]
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I received a press release from HP the other day informing me that HP have
qualified all business PC, printing and server products shipped throughout the United States and Canada for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay logo labeling program
Perhaps the SmartWay program is well known within the United States but I hadn’t [...]
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I moved to Spain recently. Setting up a new home in a new country meant a lot of new purchases. I bought CFL (and some LCD) bulbs for lighting. That was easy.
However, when it came to other purchases, things were far from clear.
I wanted a Blu-Ray DVD player and a decent TV but how do [...]
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The IBM Green Data Center in Second Life
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Episode 2 of the GreenMonk Podcasts – 27 mins 27 secs
My guest on this podcast is IBM’s Vik Chandra. According to IBM Vik
is currently responsible for Market Management and Strategy for IBM software offerings that enable organizations to reduce their energy consumption and environmental impact. IBM’s software group [...]
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In June of this year, Dell re-asserted its aim of becoming the Greenest Technology company on the planet with a post which included nuggets like:
recycled 102 million pounds of IT equipment from customers during 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006
became the first major computer manufacturer to offer desktop customers Silver 80 PLUS-certified power supplies
the [...]
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I have been having some very interesting conversations with people in the carbon software sector these last couple of weeks.
The first was with Michael Meehan of Carbonetworks (which I blogged about here) and we discussed their offering which is a “carbon strategy platform”. From my blog post about Carbonetworks:
The app at its most [...]
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We have started a podcast series here on GreenMonk. As part of the process, when I can, I will be posting ahead of time who I will be interviewing. This will give readers an opportunity to have me put questions on their behalf during the podcast.
The first such interview will take [...]
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